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Company Snapshot
Amazon is a Cloud company, based in Seattle, Washington, USA, founded 1994 by Jeff Bezos. Market cap $2.79T (As of Sep 4, 2026, companiesmarketcap.com).
Recent changes
- Sep 8, 2026Sep 8, 2026Qualcomm and Amazon strike $60B AI chip pact Pulse story
- Sep 4, 2026Sep 4, 2026First reported market cap: $2.79T companiesmarketcap.com
- Sep 1, 2026Sep 1, 2026FTC Sues Amazon Over $20B in Hidden Ad Overcharges Pulse story
- Aug 24, 2026Aug 24, 2026Amazon Hikes Hardware Prices 60% on Memory Shortage Pulse story
- Aug 4, 2026Aug 4, 2026Amazon Joins the $3 Trillion Club on AI Cloud Demand Pulse story
Earlier changes (13)
- Aug 3, 2026Aug 3, 2026Amazon Joins the $3 Trillion Club Pulse story
- Jul 31, 2026Jul 31, 2026Amazon Surges, Apple Falls as Investors Pick AI Winners Pulse story
- Jul 31, 2026Jul 31, 2026Amazon Completes Additional $35B Investment in OpenAI Pulse story
- Jul 30, 2026Jul 30, 2026Amazon Tops $200B Revenue as AWS Growth Hits 18-Quarter High Pulse story
- Jul 20, 2026Jul 20, 2026AZCOM Maruwa Pays Amazon Japan's Truckers in Stablecoin Pulse story
- Jul 18, 2026Jul 18, 2026Amazon's Zoox Recalls 105 Robotaxis After One Drove Into Active Fire Scene Pulse story
- Jul 1, 2026Jul 1, 2026Invested in TwelveLabs (Series B, $100M) PYMNTS
- Jun 17, 2026Jun 17, 2026Invested in Odyssey (Series B, $310M) Odyssey
- Jun 10, 2026Jun 10, 2026Invested in Neura Robotics (Series C, up to $1.4B) Neura Robotics
- May 28, 2026May 28, 2026Invested in Anthropic (Series H, $65B) TechCrunch
- Mar 31, 2026Mar 31, 2026Invested in OpenAI ($122B) TechCrunch
- Mar 2026Mar 2026First reported headcount: ~1.56MEstimated entity-registry reconciliation
- Dec 31, 2025Dec 31, 2025First reported revenue: $717B SEC EDGAR (10-K)
Latest Pulse
- Sep 28, 2026Your 401k Is Already Betting On The AI BoomAbout 30% of every S&P 500 dollar now sits in five AI-heavy stocks, meaning most retirement savers are making a concentrated AI bet without ever choosing one.→
- Sep 25, 2026DensityAI, Founded By Ex-Tesla Dojo Leads, Nears $10BDensityAI, an AI chip and data center startup founded by former leaders of Tesla's Dojo supercomputer program, is in advanced talks for a round that would value the year-old company at $10 billion, led by Andreessen Horowitz.→
- Sep 24, 2026Meta Unveils Charm, A Palm-Sized Dedicated AI GadgetMeta unveiled Charm, a palm-sized standalone device built around its Muse AI assistant, with a built-in touchscreen and 5G connection, shipping for the holidays without a disclosed price.→
- Sep 23, 2026Amazon Opens Seller Tools To Claude And Outside AI AgentsAmazon opened its Seller Central APIs to outside AI agents at Amazon Accelerate, launching a beta plugin that lets sellers manage inventory, pricing and analytics through Anthropic's Claude or Amazon's own Quick assistant.→
- Sep 21, 2026Amazon Locks Out Meta's Muse Shopping AgentAmazon began blocking Meta's Muse AI agent from completing purchases on Amazon.com, accusing it of concealing its identity and retaining customer credentials without authorization, days after Muse's launch.→
- Sep 21, 2026OpenAI Builds Features To Counter Grok Bot And MuseOpenAI is developing features to let ChatGPT users build always-on AI 'assistant teams' for routine tasks, a direct response to SpaceX's Grok Bot and Meta's newly launched Muse personal-assistant agent.→
- Sep 19, 2026Noetive Raises $41M To Digitize The Physical EconomyNoetive emerged from stealth with a $41 million seed round led by Eclipse. The company pairs self-improving AI with multi-modal sensing pods to build what it calls an 'intelligence of record' for the physical economy -- manufacturing, logistics, energy and data centers.→
- Sep 14, 2026Chips Sank And Hyperscalers Rose On Amodei's AI EssayMarkets repriced the AI trade along a single fault line after Dario Amodei's pacing essay: semiconductor names fell hard while Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta gained.→
- Sep 14, 2026Teravolt Wants To Turn Smelters Into AI Data CentersTeravolt is converting aluminum smelters, retired thermal plants and bitcoin mines into AI data centers, arguing a megawatt-hour earns roughly four times more running GPUs than running a smelter.→
- Sep 14, 2026Amazon Adds TikTok-Style News Clips Inside Prime VideoAmazon added on-demand, algorithmically curated short-form local and national news clips to Prime Video's News destination, initially on TVs, joining Peacock, HBO Max and Netflix in racing to capture short-form video attention inside streaming apps.→
Coverage Timeline
newest first- Sep 23, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Opens Seller Tools To Claude And Outside AI Agents→
- Sep 21, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Locks Out Meta's Muse Shopping Agent→
- Sep 14, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Adds TikTok-Style News Clips Inside Prime Video→
- Sep 13, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Set Records While Worker Food Aid Tripled→
- Sep 8, 2026BIG TECHQualcomm and Amazon strike $60B AI chip pact$60B chip pact→
- Sep 1, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft and AWS Finally Built the Multicloud Link→
- Sep 1, 2026REGULATIONFTC Sues Amazon Over $20B in Hidden Ad Overcharges$20B+ alleged→
- Aug 26, 2026AIAmazon Adds 2M More Nvidia GPUs to AWS Buildout→
- Aug 25, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Is Shutting Down Mechanical Turk After 21 Years→
- Aug 24, 2026FUNDINGAmazon Hikes Hardware Prices 60% on Memory Shortage→
- Aug 24, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Becomes a Vital Sales Outlet for Small Merchants→
- Aug 21, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Hikes Echo, Kindle, Eero Prices on Memory Costs→
- Aug 19, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Plots Sixfold Drone Expansion, Still Trails Rivals→
- Aug 19, 2026BIG TECHAmazon's Prime Air Drone Delivery Expands to Nearly 500 Cities→
- Aug 17, 2026AIHidden AirTag Reveals Amazon Shredding Books for AI→
- Aug 16, 2026REGULATIONAmazon Reinstates Arbitration, Bars Class Actions→
- Aug 14, 2026AIAnthropic's $2 Trillion Problem→
- Aug 12, 2026REGULATIONTwitch Trained Amazon's AI on Streams Since 2024, Undisclosed→
- Aug 5, 2026AIZoox Starts Charging for Robotaxi Rides Aug. 10→
- Aug 5, 2026BIG TECHZoox Starts Charging for Robotaxi Rides in Las Vegas→
- Aug 4, 2026REGULATIONPerplexity Beats Amazon in Court Over AI Shopping Agent→
- Aug 4, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Joins the $3 Trillion Club on AI Cloud Demand$3T market cap→
- Aug 4, 2026BIG TECHThe AI Trade Is Splitting Into Two Economies→
- Aug 3, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Joins the $3 Trillion Club$3.06T market cap→
- Jul 31, 2026REGULATIONZoox Wins First US OK for Steering-Wheel-Free Robotaxis→
- Jul 31, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Surges, Apple Falls as Investors Pick AI WinnersAMZN +12-14%, AAPL -8-9%→
- Jul 31, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Completes Additional $35B Investment in OpenAI$35B completed→
- Jul 30, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Tops $200B Revenue as AWS Growth Hits 18-Quarter High$200.6B rev, AWS +37%→
- Jul 30, 2026AIAmazon Winds Down Most of Its Nova AI Models→
- Jul 28, 2026AIAmazon Hires Google's TPU Software Chief→
- Jul 27, 2026BIG TECHBig Tech's $725B AI Bet Faces Earnings Reckoning→
- Jul 24, 2026BIG TECHMeta, Microsoft Face Renewed AI-Spending Unease Pre-Earnings→
- Jul 22, 2026AIAmazon Cuts Jobs in Its Own AGI Unit→
- Jul 18, 2026AIAmazon's Zoox Recalls 105 Robotaxis After One Drove Into Active Fire Scene105 vehicles recalled→
- Jul 17, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Fixes Bug That Billed AWS Customers Billions→
- Jul 11, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Layoffs Take Their Toll in a Saturated Job Market→
- Jul 10, 2026AIAI Boom Puts Big Tech's Transparency to the Test→
- Jul 8, 2026IPOAnthropic's $50B Round Shows Why the IPO Pipeline Is Shrinking$50B Series H (May 2026)→
- Jul 7, 2026FUNDINGAI Infrastructure Capex Keeps Concentrating in Fewer Hands$870B+ combined 2026 AI capex commitments→
- Jul 2, 2026AIGoogle and Amazon's Rising Emissions Are a Warning Sign About AI's Real CostGoogle +25% / Amazon +16% emissions→
- Jul 2, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Now Has Enough Satellites in Orbit to Launch Its Starlink Competitor~700 satellites by July→
- Jul 1, 2026AIAnthropic Brings Claude Fable 5 Back Globally After US Lifts Export Controls3-week global suspension resolved→
- Jul 1, 2026FUNDINGTwelveLabs Raises $100M Series B to Build 'Video Superintelligence,' Deepens AWS Partnership$100M→
- Jun 30, 2026BIG TECHBig Tech's 2026 AI Capex Will Hit $725B, up 77% Year-Over-Year$725B combined→
- Jun 25, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Commits Another $13B to India for AI and Cloud, Pushing Its Bet to $48B by 2030$13B / $48B total→
- Jun 21, 2026AIxAI's Grok 4.3 Goes Generally Available on Amazon Bedrock -- the Cheapest US Frontier Model There→
- Jun 17, 2026FUNDINGOdyssey Raises $310M Series B at $1.45B to Build AI World Models$310M→
- Jun 17, 2026FUNDINGWorld-Model Startup Odyssey Raises $310M at a $1.45B Valuation, Backed by Amazon$310M→
- Jun 17, 2026FUNDINGOdyssey Raises $310M at $1.45B -- Amazon and AMD Bet on World Models for Physical AI$310M→
- Jun 17, 2026FUNDINGOdyssey Raises $310M Series B for AI Infrastructure -- Amazon and AMD In$310M→
All Coverage
36 most recent shown — all 50 stories are in the timeline above
BIG TECH
Amazon Opens Seller Tools To Claude And Outside AI Agents
Amazon opened its Seller Central APIs to outside AI agents at Amazon Accelerate, launching a beta plugin that lets sellers manage inventory, pricing and analytics through Anthropic's Claude or Amazon's own Quick assistant.
DEEP DIVE
Amazon Locks Out Meta's Muse Shopping Agent
BIG TECH
Amazon Locks Out Meta's Muse Shopping Agent
Amazon began blocking Meta's Muse AI agent from completing purchases on Amazon.com, accusing it of concealing its identity and retaining customer credentials without authorization, days after Muse's launch.
DEEP DIVE
Amazon Adds TikTok-Style News Clips Inside Prime Video
BIG TECH
Amazon Adds TikTok-Style News Clips Inside Prime Video
Amazon added on-demand, algorithmically curated short-form local and national news clips to Prime Video's News destination, initially on TVs, joining Peacock, HBO Max and Netflix in racing to capture short-form video attention inside streaming apps.
DEEP DIVE
Amazon Set Records While Worker Food Aid Tripled
BIG TECH
Amazon Set Records While Worker Food Aid Tripled
The number of Amazon employees relying on food assistance has tripled even as the company posted record revenue, a gap that has become the clearest illustration of shrinking labor share in the automation economy.
DEEP DIVE
Qualcomm and Amazon strike $60B AI chip pact
BIG TECH$60B chip pact
Qualcomm and Amazon strike $60B AI chip pact
Qualcomm and Amazon announced a multi-generational deal to co-develop custom AI inference chips and optical interconnects for AWS data centers, tied to up to $60 billion in potential future purchases and a warrant for Amazon to buy a stake in Qualcomm worth.
DEEP DIVE
Microsoft and AWS Finally Built the Multicloud Link
BIG TECH
Microsoft and AWS Finally Built the Multicloud Link
Azure Multicloud Interconnect and AWS Interconnect deliver private 100 Gbps links between the two clouds with 99.99% availability, from companies that spent years telling regulators customers barely wanted this.
DEEP DIVE
FTC Sues Amazon Over $20B in Hidden Ad Overcharges
REGULATION$20B+ alleged
FTC Sues Amazon Over $20B in Hidden Ad Overcharges
The FTC and 22 states are suing Amazon, alleging it secretly overcharged more than a million advertisers by over $20 billion through hidden ad-auction surcharges.
DEEP DIVE
Amazon Adds 2M More Nvidia GPUs to AWS Buildout
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Amazon Adds 2M More Nvidia GPUs to AWS Buildout
AWS and Nvidia agreed to deploy 2 million additional Nvidia GPUs across Amazon's global infrastructure, tripling a commitment that started at 1 million chips, citing surging demand from startups, enterprises and governments.
DEEP DIVE
Amazon Is Shutting Down Mechanical Turk After 21 Years
BIG TECH
Amazon Is Shutting Down Mechanical Turk After 21 Years
Amazon will fully close Mechanical Turk, the crowdsourced task platform Jeff Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence,' on September 30, 2026, after AI-labeling startups hollowed out its demand.
DEEP DIVE
Amazon Hikes Hardware Prices 60% on Memory Shortage
FUNDING
Amazon Hikes Hardware Prices 60% on Memory Shortage
Amazon has raised prices on its own hardware devices by roughly 60%, citing the ongoing memory shortage, passing chip-side cost inflation straight to consumers.
BY THE NUMBERS
Amazon Becomes a Vital Sales Outlet for Small Merchants
BIG TECH
Amazon Becomes a Vital Sales Outlet for Small Merchants
Independent merchants increasingly rely on Amazon as their primary sales channel, a dependency that has grown even as sellers complain about rising fees and shrinking margins.
DEEP DIVE
Amazon Hikes Echo, Kindle, Eero Prices on Memory Costs
BIG TECH
Amazon Hikes Echo, Kindle, Eero Prices on Memory Costs
Amazon quietly raised prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle and eero devices overnight, citing a sharp rise in memory-chip costs that AI infrastructure demand has driven across the entire consumer electronics industry.
DEEP DIVE
Amazon Plots Sixfold Drone Expansion, Still Trails Rivals
BIG TECH
Amazon Plots Sixfold Drone Expansion, Still Trails Rivals
Amazon plans to expand Prime Air drone delivery to nearly 500 US cities by year-end, a sixfold jump from 11 metro areas, even as Wing, Walmart and Zipline each report far more cumulative deliveries.
DEEP DIVE
Amazon's Prime Air Drone Delivery Expands to Nearly 500 Cities
BIG TECH
Amazon's Prime Air Drone Delivery Expands to Nearly 500 Cities
Amazon is expanding Prime Air drone delivery roughly 6x to nearly 500 US cities and towns by year-end, targeting 1 million deliveries in 2026 after over a decade of slower-than-planned rollout.
DEEP DIVE
Hidden AirTag Reveals Amazon Shredding Books for AI
AI
Hidden AirTag Reveals Amazon Shredding Books for AI
A 404 Media investigation used a hidden AirTag to trace a shipment of rare books to an Amazon warehouse where workers scan and shred the physical copies to train Amazon's Nova AI models.
DEEP DIVE
Amazon Reinstates Arbitration, Bars Class Actions
REGULATION
Amazon Reinstates Arbitration, Bars Class Actions
Amazon rewrote its US Conditions of Use and Prime terms on August 14 to require binding individual arbitration and waive class-action rights, effective immediately with no advance notice period.
DEEP DIVE
Anthropic's $2 Trillion Problem
AI
Anthropic's $2 Trillion Problem
Anthropic's IPO story is being told entirely on revenue growth, but a $2 trillion valuation demands Amazon-style earnings discipline that the company hasn't shown any public evidence of yet.
TRACE'S TAKE
Twitch Trained Amazon's AI on Streams Since 2024, Undisclosed
REGULATION
Twitch Trained Amazon's AI on Streams Since 2024, Undisclosed
Twitch confirmed Amazon has used livestreams to train generative AI models since a 2024 internal prototyping phase that was never publicly disclosed, and the new opt-out setting streamers can use is enabled by default rather than off.
DEEP DIVE
Zoox Starts Charging for Robotaxi Rides Aug. 10
AI
Zoox Starts Charging for Robotaxi Rides Aug. 10
Amazon's Zoox will begin charging fares for its steering-wheel-free robotaxi in Las Vegas on August 10, its first commercial market after nearly a year of free rides in Las Vegas and San Francisco.
Zoox Starts Charging for Robotaxi Rides in Las Vegas
BIG TECH
Zoox Starts Charging for Robotaxi Rides in Las Vegas
Amazon-owned Zoox will begin charging fares for its steering-wheel-free robotaxis in Las Vegas on August 10, its first commercial market after NHTSA cleared it to operate up to 2,500 driverless vehicles without human controls.
Perplexity Beats Amazon in Court Over AI Shopping Agent
REGULATION
Perplexity Beats Amazon in Court Over AI Shopping Agent
The Ninth Circuit vacated Amazon's injunction against Perplexity's Comet shopping agent, ruling that users -- not Perplexity -- 'access' Amazon's servers under federal computer-hacking law.
Amazon Joins the $3 Trillion Club on AI Cloud Demand
BIG TECH$3T market cap
Amazon Joins the $3 Trillion Club on AI Cloud Demand
Amazon crossed a $3 trillion market cap after AWS grew 37% to $42.2B on AI-driven cloud demand, joining Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet and Nvidia in a club it took just over two years to reach from $2 trillion.
The AI Trade Is Splitting Into Two Economies
BIG TECH
The AI Trade Is Splitting Into Two Economies
Amazon just crossed $3 trillion and Palantir posted its best quarter ever on real enterprise deployment, while SpaceX's stock and AI pricing power keep getting cheaper -- the money is bifurcating into what's shipped and what's still promised.
Amazon Joins the $3 Trillion Club
BIG TECH$3.06T market cap
Amazon Joins the $3 Trillion Club
Amazon became only the fifth company ever to cross a $3 trillion market cap, driven by an AWS beat that showed cloud growth accelerating rather than plateauing -- a direct rebuttal to the summer's AI-capex skepticism.
Zoox Wins First US OK for Steering-Wheel-Free Robotaxis
REGULATION
Zoox Wins First US OK for Steering-Wheel-Free Robotaxis
Amazon's Zoox became the first company allowed to run paid rides in a commercial robotaxi built with no steering wheel, pedals or driver's seat, after NHTSA granted a first-of-its-kind federal safety exemption.
Amazon Surges, Apple Falls as Investors Pick AI Winners
BIG TECHAMZN +12-14%, AAPL -8-9%
Amazon Surges, Apple Falls as Investors Pick AI Winners
Amazon jumped after AWS posted its fastest cloud growth in 18 quarters while Apple fell on soft guidance and supply constraints, in Tim Cook's final earnings call before handing the CEO role to John Ternus.
Amazon Completes Additional $35B Investment in OpenAI
BIG TECH$35B completed
Amazon Completes Additional $35B Investment in OpenAI
Amazon has funded the remaining $35 billion of its $50 billion OpenAI commitment, a tranche that was contingent on OpenAI hitting an IPO or AGI-linked milestone, deepening Amazon's stake in the AI leader it also competes with through AWS.
Amazon Tops $200B Revenue as AWS Growth Hits 18-Quarter High
BIG TECH$200.6B rev, AWS +37%
Amazon Tops $200B Revenue as AWS Growth Hits 18-Quarter High
Amazon's Q2 revenue topped $200 billion for the first time, with AWS growing 37% -- its fastest pace in 18 quarters -- as the company raised its 2026 capex outlook to $220 billion.
Amazon Winds Down Most of Its Nova AI Models
AI
Amazon Winds Down Most of Its Nova AI Models
Amazon is deprecating most of its flagship Nova AI models -- Premier, Omni, Reel and Canvas -- and shifting resources to a new Frontier Model Research team led by Pieter Abbeel, an admission that its internal model efforts have not kept pace with rivals.
Amazon Hires Google's TPU Software Chief
AI
Amazon Hires Google's TPU Software Chief
Amazon hired Robert Hundt, the Google distinguished engineer who led original software development for Google's Tensor Processing Units, to work on Trainium chip software -- a direct talent raid in the custom AI silicon race.
Big Tech's $725B AI Bet Faces Earnings Reckoning
BIG TECH
Big Tech's $725B AI Bet Faces Earnings Reckoning
Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple report earnings this week carrying a combined $725 billion 2026 AI capital-spending plan into a market that has grown newly skeptical of unlimited AI infrastructure spending.
Meta, Microsoft Face Renewed AI-Spending Unease Pre-Earnings
BIG TECH
Meta, Microsoft Face Renewed AI-Spending Unease Pre-Earnings
Meta, Microsoft and Amazon face renewed investor anxiety over debt-fueled AI capital spending heading into earnings week, after Alphabet raised its 2026 capex forecast by as much as $15 billion and posted its first-ever negative free cash flow.
Amazon Cuts Jobs in Its Own AGI Unit
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Amazon Cuts Jobs in Its Own AGI Unit
Amazon eliminated roles within its Artificial General Intelligence organization even as it prepares to spend roughly $200 billion on AI infrastructure this year, refocusing toward customer-facing AI.
Amazon's Zoox Recalls 105 Robotaxis After One Drove Into Active Fire Scene
AI105 vehicles recalled
Amazon's Zoox Recalls 105 Robotaxis After One Drove Into Active Fire Scene
Zoox voluntarily recalled software in 105 robotaxis after an unoccupied vehicle drove into heavy smoke at an uncordoned emergency fire scene in Las Vegas, days after federal regulators demanded autonomous-vehicle makers fix first-responder interference by the.
Amazon Fixes Bug That Billed AWS Customers Billions
BIG TECH
Amazon Fixes Bug That Billed AWS Customers Billions
Amazon is fixing a software billing error that generated erroneous invoices showing billions owed by some AWS customers, a stumble landing the same week investors scrutinize execution across AI infrastructure.
Amazon Layoffs Take Their Toll in a Saturated Job Market
BIG TECH
Amazon Layoffs Take Their Toll in a Saturated Job Market
Amazon has cut more than 57,000 corporate staffers since 2022, and laid-off workers describe a job market so saturated that a single posting draws 200 to 300 applicants within hours, CNBC reports.
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